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Lord the cracked things come into my head sometimes

Vern Tonkin wrote 4 months ago: and why did i do this work have i no manners nor no refinement nor no agenbite of inwit well i do ha … more →

Tags: Penelope, cat, Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, God, Jesus, mary, Martha

What celestial sign was by both simultaneously observed?

Sly Uses wrote 5 months ago: Right. 2:30 am, Universal Time 2:55, Sidereal time 20:09:45. Conception location: 6w15, 52n20. Is th … more →

Tags: Ithaca, 32 feet per second per second, Dante Alighieri, inferno, James Joyce, Ulysses, vulture

Releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of the air. 6 comments

Sly Uses wrote 6 months ago: 2:03 am Give me four minutes, and you’ll have your fire.  There is an art in lighting a fire, … more →

Tags: Ithaca, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", Creator, Dante Alighieri, Fire, Holocaust, James Joyce, purgatorio, Ulysses

Dreams go by contraries.1 comment

Worlds Weary wrote 7 months ago: 12:50 am Follow me. Come on, follow. Follow follow follow. You know me, yes? Remember? Almost it.  T … more →

Tags: Circe, Ulysses, James Joyce, dream, hamlet, William Blake, William Shakespeare, FOX, Word & World

The clock on the mantlepiece in the priest's house cooed.

Nowthenowhen wrote 10 months ago: 9:00 pm Unportal my loves, let’s tell them the sin of my when. cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuc … more →

Tags: Nausicaa, Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, The Ayenbite of Inwyt, Dan Michel of Northgate

Near her monthlies, I expect, makes them feel ticklish.2 comments

Nowthenowhen wrote 10 months ago: 8:47 pm Scene [Tranquilla convent, in the back garden.  The sisters are preparing to receive a novic … more →

Tags: Nausicaa, Ulysses, James Joyce, William Blake, Milton a Poem, Martha, AE (George W. Russell), Tranquilla convent, ST PATRICIA

Where fallen archangels flung the stars of their brows.

Worlds Weary wrote 1 year ago: We.  The two roaring worlds without and within: beingless beings.  And I.  Shatter them and myself i … more →

Tags: The Wandering Rocks, Ulysses, James Joyce, Mirror, see myself as others see me, drowning, The Ayenbite of Inwyt, Dan Michel of Northgate, Dilly Dedalus

The voice of Esau.

Worlds Weary wrote 1 year ago: 2:46 pm A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella, and in my case the reality of my existence … more →

Tags: Scylla and Charybdis, Ulysses, James Joyce, temporality, Jorge Luis Borges, mathematical esoterica, Memory, William Shakespeare, nostalgia for the present

A star by night. A pillar of the cloud by day. What more's to speak?

Worlds Weary wrote 1 year ago: 2:43 pm My cousin.  I attended his funeral.  He drowned, you know.  Did you know?  His father, Nuncl … more →

Tags: Scylla and Charybdis, Ulysses, James Joyce, death, Dedalus, Stars, drowning, The Ayenbite of Inwyt, Dan Michel of Northgate

What the hell are you driving at? I know. Shut up. Blast you. I have reasons.

Worlds Weary wrote 1 year ago: 2:36 pm A father is a necessary evil.  Listen to me, I know.  Who’s your daddy?  Do you really … more →

Tags: Scylla and Charybdis, Urine, Ulysses, James Joyce, hamlet, Finnegans Wake, God, Father, William Shakespeare

One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.

Worlds Weary wrote 1 year ago: 2:10 pm I married a ghost.  And I died before I was born.  Liliata rutilantium.  Well, I died sixty- … more →

Tags: Scylla and Charybdis, Ann Hathaway, ghost, hamlet, James Joyce, Memory, Money, Ophelia, soul

Semiunconscience

Worlds Weary wrote 1 year ago: 8:51 am Buck talking about drinking my paycheck again.  His solemn duty to go on a bi-monthly bender … more →

Tags: Telemachus, Buck Mulligan, Haines, Ulysses, James Joyce, bath, rain, Finnegans Wake

Pedantic rantic9 comments

whatisthestars wrote 1 year ago: Today in my Shakespearean Sonnets class, a gentleman referred to Shakespeare’s language as … more →

Tags: Complaints, Explanations, Poetry & Art, School, Shakespeare, School, Elizabeth, Old English, middle english

So,

benjaminhale wrote 1 year ago: I teach fiction classes for the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, which is awesome.  For my la … more →

Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Evolution, Literature, Morality, Nerds, Power, Religion, sex, writing

Our Age of Unease

Alan wrote 2 years ago: Eventually everyone leads a strange life, probably because life isn’t a sit-com. And out here … more →

Tags: Psychology, American Delusion, American optimism, Hollywood and America, Obama and Reagan, Hollywood Situation Comedies, Sit-Com World, Ayenbite of Inwyt, Allen Ginsberg


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